Grove Park Elementary

As a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in Burlington, North Carolina, Grove Park Elementary instructs 437 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of Alamance-Burlington Schools.

Grove Park Elementary is one of 37 schools operated by Alamance-Burlington Schools, a district that works with 22,661 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Grove Park Elementary records that the largest single group is Black at 43%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 32% Hispanic, 13% White, 10% multiracial. By comparison, Alamance County as a whole is about 20% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 14.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 99% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Alamance County runs at roughly 80%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Grove Park Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.5%, the actual is 31.2%, a residual of -17.3 points.

In the surrounding community, Alamance County reports that median household earnings sit near $65,651, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Alamance County's 42 public schools (combined enrollment of about 25,737 students), Grove Park Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Walter M Williams High, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Grove Park Elementary at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 41.3%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Grove Park Elementary's enrollment has decreased 8% since 2018, when it stood at 473 (now 437). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 20% to 13%.

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